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Events:C/P.
138 The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
628 Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1631 Franηois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 10001500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
1856 A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 Marie-Adιlaοde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 World War I: the Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprδsident.
1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hΰ My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hΰ My massacre.
1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated by the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1997 Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
Events:C/P.
138 The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
628 Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1631 Franηois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 10001500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
1856 A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 Marie-Adιlaοde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 World War I: the Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprδsident.
1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hΰ My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hΰ My massacre.
1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated by the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1997 Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.